What really happened with the list ;)

Darkknight · September 2, 2001, 19:50

Yin this is your fault. I was reading your interview and the second answer with the bit about the civ3 list started me thinking. Damn you know how much that hurts me.

The list was printed tabbed and passed around the Firaxis office.

The Brian Reynolds days:

Imagine five Firaxians sitting around a table in the early morning drinking coffee. Yeah you know the scene.

List given to Fir1, Fir 1 passes to Fir2 who passes to Fir3 and on to Fir5 who chucks it in the bin beside him.

Imagine Brian R. sitting at his desk pencil in hand paper in front of him. Sid passes by his door.

Sid: I want those ideas in half an hour Brian.
BR : Grunt.

20 minutes pass. The pencil snaps and Brian is ready to give up hope when he remembers. Quickly he takes the List and jots down the best ideas he can find in 5 minutes.

Imagine Sid in his office at his computer. Golf clubs leaning in the corner.

Sid mutters " I wonder, it could work? "

Brian struts in sheet in hand and places it in front of Sid.

Sid reads for a few seconds.

Sid: What in gods name? This is rubbish religion my ass! There will be only one religion!

BR : Which one?

Sid: The one where I get all the money and virgins!

BR: Ah.

Sid: Why don't you come up with some good ideas like this Yin guy?

BR: Well given more time and of course more money...

Sid: That's not the people I want working on my project. You don't even eat doughnuts! Get out of here!!

BR : But Sidmond we've been friends for...

Sid: OUT!!

Brian scurries out the door.

Sid: I wonder... could a golf game really make money?

D'END

BTW I figured out why there's an SDI defense in all civ games.
SDI = SID
It's his plan to brainwash the world and make us revere him as god! Think about it without an SDI your doomed! It's subtle headology! And it's worked!

I'm sorry... My imagination runs amok sometimes.

yin26 · September 2, 2001, 20:46

"This message has been auto-matically generated by a program called Yin's Amazing Reply-o-Meter v1.03b. This message has been thoroughly analyzed, and the appropriate response has been deemed to be:

. Thank you for your patience during Yin's exile. And remember: Buying him Civ3 could fix this whole mess."

Lancer · September 3, 2001, 21:08

It became an important tool in Sid's efforts.

His puppies are all house trained now, and the list has served well.

TCO · September 3, 2001, 21:54

Could somebody please detail what specific parts of the game have come from the list? I hear all this hoopla about how much the list influenced the game...but no facts!

yin26 · September 4, 2001, 00:11

When the game is released, we'll do a complete run-down for you. For now, some of the things (like cheats that were likely removed, etc.) are subtle and won't be noticed until the game is in front of us. Other things like culture and resources were taken right from Poly, though perhaps not exactly as described in the List...which served as a massive brain storming session very early on (as in the moment we knew Firaxis could do Civ3).

TCO · September 4, 2001, 15:47

Quote:

Originally posted by yin26
When the game is released, we'll do a complete run-down for you. For now, some of the things (like cheats that were likely removed, etc.) are subtle and won't be noticed until the game is in front of us. Other things like culture and resources were taken right from Poly, though perhaps not exactly as described in the List...which served as a massive brain storming session very early on (as in the moment we knew Firaxis could do Civ3).

Sounds good. For now...the only list claims we can make are that culture and resources came from the list, right?

yin26 · September 4, 2001, 20:31

Well, considering those are the only "real additions" to the game that we know about, I'd say we are batting 1,000!

But the real fun will be going back and digging up all the little stuff...

Provost Harrison · September 4, 2001, 20:38

The civ3 list became a suppository at Firaxis I am afraid

yin26 · September 4, 2001, 21:32

Had to check my dictionary on this one...

Suppository: a solid but readily meltable cone or cylinder of usually medicated material for insertion into a bodily passage or cavity (as the rectum).

LOL!

dainbramaged13 · September 4, 2001, 23:21

Quote:

Originally posted by yin26
Had to check my dictionary on this one...

Suppository: a solid but readily meltable cone or cylinder of usually medicated material for insertion into a bodily passage or cavity (as the rectum).

LOL!

OMG

rotflmgdmfao